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'Consumer Coma'. A busy Ikea is surely a truer vision of hell than Hieronymous Bosch could ever conjure. I had a panic attack in the South London one and my wife doesn't make me go any more.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Thu 13 May 2010, 10:01, 1 reply)

The Edinburgh branch has been there maybe 10 years
and I've been once - I'll not be back. WTF is going on with the arrows on the floors? Are we all a bloody herd or what? Can we not wander where we like and just browse FFS?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 May 2010, 10:07, closed)

The arrows are to create an entirely illusionary...
sense of order, I suppose. The whole set up at Ikea almost seems designed to drive you insane - a weird, dystopic mix of chaos and banality. They are actually conducive to aberrant behaviour. Google 'Ikea Riots' and you will find 174,000 links. I think the Edmonton one was the most recent to erupt in violence.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Thu 13 May 2010, 10:25, closed)